Michelle Obama: "Our leaders had worked hand in hand with scientists to help prevent an Ebola outbreak from becoming a global pandemic." Ms. Harris last week: "Remember that pandemic? Barack Obama and Joe Biden did their job. Only two people died in the United States."
Anthony Fauci said in 2014 that a U.S. outbreak was "Very, very, very unlikely." Mr. Obama told Americans to chill out: "Ebola is actually a difficult disease to catch. It's not transmitted through the air like the flu."
Mr. Obama encouraged calm, while Mr. Biden rambled a warning about staying off airplanes and public transport-prompting backlash.
The Obama administration still had no idea how deadly the disease was, though the World Health Organization called the outbreak a threat to "All humanity," and health experts predicted hospitals would be overloaded.
Mr. Obama promised to "Control" the "Impact" of the virus-not the virus itself.
Team Obama promised 100 million doses of vaccine by mid-October.
Former Biden chief of staff Ron Klain said at Texas A&M in 2019: "We did every possible thing wrong. Sixty million Americans got H1N1 in that period of time, and it is just purely a fortuity that this isn't one of the great mass-casualty events in American history. [It] had nothing to do with us doing anything right; just had to do with luck. If anyone thinks that can't happen again, they don't have to go back to 1918. Just go back to 2009, 2010. Imagine a virus with a different lethality, and you can just do the math."
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